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Washington Risks Falling for Syria's ISIS Strategy, Again - NBCNews.com Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:07:04 GMT

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Washington Risks Falling for Syria's ISIS Strategy, Again
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The CIA estimates there are now as many as 31,000 ISIS fighters in Syria and Iraq murdering and enslaving anyone who opposes them — a death cult obsessed with publishing its own brutality online, such as the latest beheading video of British aid ...
To Stop ISIS in Syria, Support AleppoNew York Times
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Alan Henning is an aid worker from Manchester who went to Syria to help refugees - Daily Mail Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:04:44 GMT

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Alan Henning is an aid worker from Manchester who went to Syria to help refugees
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A second British hostage ISIS fanatics are threatening to murder can today be revealed as a taxi driver who travelled to Syria to help refugees. Islamic militants warned in a chilling video that 47-year-old Alan Henning - who is originally from the ...
Islamic State: Legal justification for air strikes on Syria not even 'wafer ...The Independent
'Well liked' cabbie turned charity worker Alan Henning ignored warnings not to ...Metro
Isis hostage: Alan Henning described as 'a big man with a big heart'The Guardian
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Lessons of Libya cast shadow on Syria strategy - USA TODAY Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:56:14 GMT

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Lessons of Libya cast shadow on Syria strategy
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President Obama's plan involves partnering with pro-Western elements of the Syrian opposition. They would provide ground troops, bolstered by U.S. training and air power, to defeat the Islamic State. The opposition's main goal, however, is to defeat ...

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Aid Groups Describe a Failed Response on Syria As Airstrikes Loom - ABC News Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:22:53 GMT

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Aid Groups Describe a Failed Response on Syria As Airstrikes Loom
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As the U.S. and its allies move towards strikes in Syria, aiming to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State, aid groups say the world has already failed in its response to the Syrian crisis. A new Oxfam report says that the international ...

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No US boots in Syria is a 'fantasy,' Graham says - The Hill Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:02:49 GMT

No US boots in Syria is a 'fantasy,' Graham says
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“I will not let this president suggest to the American people we can outsource our security and this is not about our safety,” he said, referring to the Obama administration's push to empower local players already on the ground in Iraq and Syria.

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Syria's war - The Economist (blog) Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:57:24 GMT

Syria's war
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IT WAS early in the morning of September 11th in Damascus, the Syrian capital, when Barack Obama broadcast an important speech from Washington. Forty-nine years to the day after Bashar Assad was born, the ruler of Syria was to hear the American ...

US Will Use “ISIS Airstrikes” in Syria as Aircover for Rebels, Hit Syrian ... - Center for Research on Globalization Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:51:52 GMT

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US Will Use “ISIS Airstrikes” in Syria as Aircover for Rebels, Hit Syrian ...
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Put aside for a minute that any US airstrikes conducted inside Syria without consultation from the Syrian government would be classed by international law and perhaps even by the UN as an act of war against Syria. Why are US politicians, bureaucrats ...
Report: ISIS, Syrian rebels reach ceasefireThe Hill
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Syria airstrikes need boots on the ground, AF officer says - USA TODAY Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:43:32 GMT

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Syria airstrikes need boots on the ground, AF officer says
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WASHINGTON — U.S. special operations forces will be needed on the ground in Syria to make the expanded air war President Obama has ordered there more effective, a senior Air Force commander told USA TODAY. The spy planes flying missions over ...
Strikes in Iraq and Syria expected under new US war planNational Post
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17 Jihadists killed in airstrike against their camp in Syria - Fox News Latino Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:43:37 GMT

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17 Jihadists killed in airstrike against their camp in Syria
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At least 17 members of the jihadist Islamic State died in airstrikes launched by the Syrian army against an IS training camp in the northeastern part of the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced Sunday. In a communique, the ...
Syria air strike on Islamic State camp kills 18The Straits Times
Syria air strike on jihadist camp kills 18: New tollAhram Online
Shelling kills 19 as Syria Kurds battle jihadistsPeninsula On-line

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Middle East Updates / Iran: US strikes in Syria will set Middle East ablaze - Haaretz Sun, 14 Sep 2014 08:37:22 GMT

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Middle East Updates / Iran: US strikes in Syria will set Middle East ablaze
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The U.S., he said, was "trying to divert the eyes of the world from its pivotal role in supporting and equipping the terrorists in Syria in a bid to topple the legitimate regime," according to the report. Iran's speaker of parliament Ali Larjiani ...

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